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now, commercial conference in rupert murdoch is leaking like a sieve. shares in trying to drop the candidate -- dropped. there have occasionally been some who are safe and decent. there outnumbered by the william randolph hearst and conrad black's. murdoch no claim to be something different. a newspaper man who happens to be, a multimedia tycoon, but he never surrendered his close personal control of his empire. as david reports, that's increasingly seen as part of the problem. >> rupert murdoch sits atop a complex british arms of his corporation. his son oversees the european and asian interests including news international, the country that owns the sunday times and "the sun" and until yesterday the "news of the world." james is also chairman of bskyb, of which news corp. owns 31%. they want to own it all. in an effort to save the deal in which they would get it all, they have sacrificed the "news of the world." but has rupert murdoch left his home today, it was clear that this wasn't going to go anywhere near as waging the anger that was threatening
now, commercial conference in rupert murdoch is leaking like a sieve. shares in trying to drop the candidate -- dropped. there have occasionally been some who are safe and decent. there outnumbered by the william randolph hearst and conrad black's. murdoch no claim to be something different. a newspaper man who happens to be, a multimedia tycoon, but he never surrendered his close personal control of his empire. as david reports, that's increasingly seen as part of the problem. >> rupert...
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you heard today from rupert murdoch that it is the most humble day. we try to explain openly and honestly what happened and we were very unhappy with the criticisms from the company. we aspire daily to have a great company. the criticisms were felt. >> tell us how often you spoke to various prime minister's, editors of news -- "news of the world" or chief executive of news international. how often would you meet tony blair or gordon brown and david cameron respectively? >> prime minister david cameron, i read the other day that we met 26 times. i don't know if that is correct. -and do my best to come back to you on an exact number. i am sure it is correct but i have never been to downing street when david cameron was prime minister. prime minister gordon brown and tony blair -- >> how regular is regularly? >> on prime minister gordon brown in the time he was in downing street and when he was chancellor i would have gone six times the year. >> tony blair? >> probably similar. in the last few years a little more. if you want me to cite numbers i can do
you heard today from rupert murdoch that it is the most humble day. we try to explain openly and honestly what happened and we were very unhappy with the criticisms from the company. we aspire daily to have a great company. the criticisms were felt. >> tell us how often you spoke to various prime minister's, editors of news -- "news of the world" or chief executive of news international. how often would you meet tony blair or gordon brown and david cameron respectively? >>...
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when he was working for the paper pre-rupert murdoch. i was in london dreaming of one day becoming a blogger in america. i can't wait to read walter's new book on steve jobs. it's safe to say that right now walter is probably the only man in washington who was making jobs at a priority. [laughter] [applause] >> and i also loved his other autobiography on henry kissinger, and partly because henry kissinger was the first man to reassure me when i moved to new york that having an accent was not a problem. [laughter] he said to me, you can never underestimate in the american public the complete advantages of other income for his. [laughter] >> there's no question that not just at this time but particularly this week, media is an incredible time of transition. i happened to be in london and we are launching the "huffington post" u.k. when the phone hacking scandal started. and it was amazing to see two things. first of all, how all fashion and a credibly irrelevant, the debate between all media -- old media new media. there was an institution
when he was working for the paper pre-rupert murdoch. i was in london dreaming of one day becoming a blogger in america. i can't wait to read walter's new book on steve jobs. it's safe to say that right now walter is probably the only man in washington who was making jobs at a priority. [laughter] [applause] >> and i also loved his other autobiography on henry kissinger, and partly because henry kissinger was the first man to reassure me when i moved to new york that having an accent was...
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phone hacking scandal with testimony from rupert murdoch and chairman ceo and also his son james murdoch. the hearing wrapped up and they resumed after a brief interruption in london after a protester threw what appeared to be foam pie at mr. murdoch. here's what happened this morning. >> the last question and i will try to be a few very specific questions that i would like to ask you. starting with you mr. james murdoch, you've been over at length the differences and to pay the settlements, can you just tell me whether or not the settlements included a confidentiality clause and maybe the other settlements did not? [screaming] >> again, part of the disruption today at the phone hacking scandal in london, a parliament hearing that was underway and ran three hours or so. we're going to show that to you later on in our program schedule and we also want to remind you tomorrow on here on c-span2, we will be covering the statement of prime minister david cameron that will get underway at 6:30 eastern live here tomorrow morning on c-span2. we're hoping to take you live to the white house for t
phone hacking scandal with testimony from rupert murdoch and chairman ceo and also his son james murdoch. the hearing wrapped up and they resumed after a brief interruption in london after a protester threw what appeared to be foam pie at mr. murdoch. here's what happened this morning. >> the last question and i will try to be a few very specific questions that i would like to ask you. starting with you mr. james murdoch, you've been over at length the differences and to pay the...
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. >> news corporation chairman and ceo rupert murdoch has now agreed to testify to appear tuesday before british parliament committee. >> part of the u.s. delegation attending the independent day similar. thursday he testified before the senate foreign relations committee about u.s. politics toward sudan and south sudan. including continued military conflicts in the region along with the two nations border and disagreements over oil revenues shoot. this evening is 90 minutes. >> -- this meeting is 90 minut minutes. >> the hearing will come to order. thank you all very much for being here this morning. ambassador lyman, it is a great privilege to welcome you back to the committee we appreciate enormously the work that you are doing as the president's special envoy to sudan. and i want to just thank you personally. i've had a chance to see you working in many meetings that we've had together there in sudan, and i've been extraordinary impressed by your steady, calm, tireless commitment to working under difficult circumstances to make progress. it's the essence of good diplomacy, and i real
. >> news corporation chairman and ceo rupert murdoch has now agreed to testify to appear tuesday before british parliament committee. >> part of the u.s. delegation attending the independent day similar. thursday he testified before the senate foreign relations committee about u.s. politics toward sudan and south sudan. including continued military conflicts in the region along with the two nations border and disagreements over oil revenues shoot. this evening is 90 minutes....